Courtney B. Vance
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1960-03-12
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biografía
Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. Vance started his career on the Broadway stage in the original productions of August Wilson's Fences in 1985, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation in 1990 and Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy in 2013 for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He is known for his roles in films such as Hamburger Hill (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Preacher's Wife (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), Terminator Genisys (2015), and Isle of Dogs (2018). Vance is also known for work on television on shows such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, where he portrayed Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver. He also guest-starred on Law & Order, Picket Fences, The Closer, Revenge, Scandal, and Masters of Sex. He won acclaim for his portrayal of Johnnie Cochran in the FX limited series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016) for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He recently appeared in the HBO television film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017), National Geographic's limited series Genius: Aretha (2020), and the HBO drama series Lovecraft Country (2020) the latter of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He has been married to actress Angela Bassett since 1997. Vance is on the Board of Directors for The Actors Center in New York City, and is an active supporter of Boys & Girls Clubs of America. In 2019, Vance was appointed as the President of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
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Filmografía
Girl Dad
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Lilo y Stitch
Death Wish
Grotesquerie
Grotesquerie
Percy Jackson y los dioses del Olimpo
Atraco 88
Sherri
The Jennifer Hudson Show
61st Street
Estados Unidos: La lucha por la libertad
Between the World and Me
Territorio Lovecraft
Proyecto Power
El sumiller
Retrato de un amor
Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
On Broadway
The Tamron Hall Show
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
El regreso de Ben
The Groveland Four
Isla de perros
La momia
Genius
La vida inmortal de Henrietta Lacks
Fiesta de empresa
American Crime Story
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Terminator Génesis
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Masters of Sex
Graceland
¡Voy a brillar!
Scandal
Finding Your Roots
Las chicas del coro
Aislados
Revenge
Destino final 5
Hurricane Season
Medidas extraordinarias
FlashForward
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Nada más que la verdad
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Closer
The Fight
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Gary the Rat
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Partners of the Heart
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
D-Tox (Ojo Asesino)
Ley y orden: Acción criminal
Boston Public
Space Cowboys
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
The Acting Class
Love and Action in Chicago
La fortuna de Cookie
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Blind Faith
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Los Thornberrys
Any Day Now
Ambushed
12 hombres sin piedad: Veredicto final
The View
La mujer del predicador
The Boys Next Door
The Affair
La última cena
Escuadrón de combate 332
Mentes peligrosas
Panther
The Piano Lesson
Urgencias
Esposa por herencia
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
Percy & Thunder
Recuerdos que matan
Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn
In the Line of Duty: Street War
Picket Fences
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
The Emperor's New Clothes
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
Ley y orden
La caza del Octubre Rojo
American Experience
Treinta y tantos
La colina de la hamburguesa
First Affair
NOVA
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Premios Globo de Oro